Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real economy is to defeat this bill entirely, give them nothing, vote for not one dime for the Mutual Security program," roared Texas Tom. "Then you can go home and stretch yourselves before your constituents and say, 'I saved $7 billion'-and let the world go to hell...
...Times's Washington bureau, explained how Bureau Chief Krock manages to do it. Writing in the Times's house organ on Krock's 25th anniversary with the paper, Reston says that Krock's exclusives illustrate "what must hereinafter be known as the give-'em-hell rule of journalism or Krock's law." The law: "Nothing loosens up a well-informed circle like a good kick in the pants...
...Medieval ascetics, an anachronistic protest against Renaissance humanism. Discussing the newly revived ancient classics, he wrote: "The only good thing which we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell." No Protestant, he remained to the last rigidly faithful to Roman Catholic doctrine...
...Harvard student is a downtrodden animal. Instinctively fun-loving and hell-raising in his search for excitement, he has at every turn been clubbed, flogged, gassed, rusticated, jailed, admonished, severed, and expunged...
...Koje Island seized him? An infuriated Pentagon general said privately last week that, as soon as Dodd was in telephone communication with his successor, Brigadier General Charles Colson, he should have said: "Come in and get me. Use all the guns and force you need. If I die, the hell with it." Even if Dodd had made no such demand, the Pentagon man continued, Colson should have sent a force into the compound. Colson and Dodd would have been heroes, although Dodd might also have been a casualty: at any rate the day would have been saved...